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Linus Torvalds b278240839 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits)
  [PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y
  [PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags
  [PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.
  [PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros.
  [PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
  [PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64)
  [PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c
  [PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
  [PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
  [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI
  [PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
  [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
  [PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c
  [PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.
  [PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion
  [PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems
  [PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code
  [PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear
  [PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume
  [PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.
  ...
2006-09-26 13:07:55 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 75534b50cc [PATCH] Change the name of pagedir_nosave
The name of the pagedir_nosave variable does not make sense any more, so it
seems reasonable to change it to something more meaningful.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:49:01 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki e8eff5ac29 [PATCH] Make swsusp avoid memory holes and reserved memory regions on x86_64
On x86_64 machines with more than 2 GB of RAM there are large memory gaps
(with no corresponding kernel virtual addresses) and reserved memory
regions between areas of usable physical RAM.  Moreover, if CONFIG_FLATMEM
is set, they appear within the normal zone.  swsusp should not try to save
them, so the corresponding page structs have to be marked as 'nosave'.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:58 -07:00
Andrew Morton a3bc0dbc81 [PATCH] smp_call_function_single() cleanup
If we're going to implement smp_call_function_single() on three architecture
with the same prototype then it should have a declaration in a
non-arch-specific header file.

Move it into <linux/smp.h>.

Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:56 -07:00
Clemens Ladisch 1447c27d38 [PATCH] hpet rtc emulation: add watchdog timer
To prevent the emulated RTC timer from stopping when interrupts are delayed
for too long, disable interrupts around all of the register initialization,
and check that the interrupt handler did not schedule the next interrupt in
the past.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Robert Picco <Robert.Picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:54 -07:00
Dave McCracken 46a82b2d55 [PATCH] Standardize pxx_page macros
One of the changes necessary for shared page tables is to standardize the
pxx_page macros.  pte_page and pmd_page have always returned the struct
page associated with their entry, while pte_page_kernel and pmd_page_kernel
have returned the kernel virtual address.  pud_page and pgd_page, on the
other hand, return the kernel virtual address.

Shared page tables needs pud_page and pgd_page to return the actual page
structures.  There are very few actual users of these functions, so it is
simple to standardize their usage.

Since this is basic cleanup, I am submitting these changes as a standalone
patch.  Per Hugh Dickins' comments about it, I am also changing the
pxx_page_kernel macros to pxx_page_vaddr to clarify their meaning.

Signed-off-by: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:51 -07:00
Christoph Lameter fb0e7942bd [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: make ZONE_DMA32 optional
Make ZONE_DMA32 optional

- Add #ifdefs around ZONE_DMA32 specific code and definitions.

- Add CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32 config option and use that for x86_64
  that alone needs this zone.

- Remove the use of CONFIG_DMA_IS_DMA32 and CONFIG_DMA_IS_NORMAL
  for ia64 and fix up the way per node ZVCs are calculated.

- Fall back to prior GFP_ZONEMASK of 0x03 if there is no
  DMA32 zone.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 776ed98b84 [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: remove two strange uses of MAX_NR_ZONES
I keep seeing zones on various platforms that are never used and wonder why we
compile support for them into the kernel.  Counters show up for HIGHMEM and
DMA32 that are alway zero.

This patch allows the removal of ZONE_DMA32 for non x86_64 architectures and
it will get rid of ZONE_HIGHMEM for arches not using highmem (like 64 bit
architectures).  If an arch does not define CONFIG_HIGHMEM then ZONE_HIGHMEM
will not be defined.  Similarly if an arch does not define CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
then ZONE_DMA32 will not be defined.

No current architecture uses all the 4 zones (DMA,DMA32,NORMAL,HIGH) that we
have now.  The patchset will reduce the number of zones for all platforms.

On many platforms that do not have DMA32 or HIGHMEM this will reduce the
number of zones by 50%.  F.e.  ia64 only uses DMA and NORMAL.

Large amounts of memory can be saved for larger systemss that may have a few
hundred NUMA nodes.

With ZONE_DMA32 and ZONE_HIGHMEM support optional MAX_NR_ZONES will be 2 for
many non i386 platforms and even for i386 without CONFIG_HIGHMEM set.

Tested on ia64, x86_64 and on i386 with and without highmem.

The patchset consists of 11 patches that are following this message.

One could go even further than this patchset and also make ZONE_DMA optional
because some platforms do not need a separate DMA zone and can do DMA to all
of memory.  This could reduce MAX_NR_ZONES to 1.  Such a patchset will
hopefully follow soon.

This patch:

Fix strange uses of MAX_NR_ZONES

Sometimes we use MAX_NR_ZONES - x to refer to a zone.  Make that explicit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
Andi Kleen 3f75f42d77 [PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y
Most systems don't need it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:42 +02:00
Dave Jones dcf10307c3 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags
Add supplemental SSE3 instructions flag, and Direct Cache Access flag.
As described in "Intel Processor idenfication and the CPUID instruction
AP485 Sept 2006"

AK: also added for x86-64

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:42 +02:00
Dmitriy Zavin 3222b36f46 [PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.
The counter is exported to /sys that keeps track of the
number of thermal events, such that the user knows how bad the
thermal problem might be (since the logging to syslog and mcelog
is rate limited).

AK: Fixed cpu hotplug locking

Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Zavin <dmitriyz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:42 +02:00
Dmitriy Zavin 15d5f83983 [PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
Refactor the event processing (syslog messaging and rate limiting)
into separate file therm_throt.c. This allows consistent reporting
of CPU thermal throttle events.

After ACK'ing the interrupt, if the event is current, the user
(p4.c/mce_intel.c) calls therm_throt_process to log (and rate limit)
the event. If that function returns 1, the user has the option to log
things further (such as to mce_log in x86_64).

AK: minor cleanup

Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Zavin <dmitriyz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:42 +02:00
Andi Kleen 0637a70a5d [PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
Some buggy systems can machine check when config space accesses
happen for some non existent devices.  i386/x86-64 do some early
device scans that might trigger this. Allow pci=noearly to disable
this. Also when type 1 is disabling also don't do any early
accesses which are always type1.

This moves the pci= configuration parsing to be a early parameter.
I don't think this can break anything because it only changes
a single global that is only used by PCI.

Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: Trammell Hudson <hudson@osresearch.net>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen 8f60774a11 [PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
Saves about 200 bytes of code space.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen f157cbb1eb [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI
This is useful on systems with broken PCI bus. Affects various
scans in x86-64 and i386's early ACPI quirk scan.

Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Cc: Trammell Hudson <hudson@osresearch.net>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen 658fdbef66 [PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
SYSENTER can cause a NT to be set which might cause crashes on the IRET
in the next task.

Following similar i386 patch from Linus.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Jan Beulich adf1423698 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
Current gcc generates calls not jumps to noreturn functions. When that happens the
return address can point to the next function, which confuses the unwinder.

This patch works around it by marking asynchronous exception
frames in contrast normal call frames in the unwind information.  Then teach
the unwinder to decode this.

For normal call frames the unwinder now subtracts one from the address which avoids
this problem.  The standard libgcc unwinder uses the same trick.

It doesn't include adjustment of the printed address (i.e. for the original
example, it'd still be kernel_math_error+0 that gets displayed, but the
unwinder wouldn't get confused anymore.

This only works with binutils 2.6.17+ and some versions of H.J.Lu's 2.6.16
unfortunately because earlier binutils don't support .cfi_signal_frame

[AK: added automatic detection of the new binutils and wrote description]

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen ab2e0b46cb [PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c
No functional changes
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen 536e3ee4fe [PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.
In case the user space was compiled with -mregparm=3
Following i386. Pointed out by Albert Cahalan

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen dd54a11004 [PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion
This was old code that was needed for iBCS and x86-64 never supported that.

Pointed out by Albert Cahalan
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen 2049336f60 [PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems
We do some additional CPU synchronization in gettimeofday et.al. to make
sure the time stamps are always monotonic over multiple CPUs. But on
single core systems that is not needed. So don't do it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen 9ddab42d1e [PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code
Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen 27fbe5b28a [PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear
It is faster than using a unrolled loop for the use cases the kernel
cares about (cached, sizes typically < 4K)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Matthew Garrett 35d534a3ff [PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume
Got it. i8259A_resume calls init_8259A(0) unconditionally, even if
auto_eoi has been set. Keep track of the current status and restore that
on resume. This fixes it for AMD64 and i386.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Aaron Durbin 4c6e052adf [PATCH] MMCONFIG and new Intel motherboards
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 04:14:29PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> [patch] Looks reasonable, but probably not for 2.6.18 because this stuff
> is already too fragile and it is probably too risky to do any big changes now
> since not enough testing time is left. Can you please resubmit
> it with proper description and signed-off-by line? I can queue it for .19 then
>
> -Andi

Patch inserts PCI memory mapped config region(s) into the resource map.  This
will allow for the MMCCONFIG regions to be marked as busy in the iomem
address space as well as the regions(s) showing up in /proc/iomem.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Aaron Durbin 56dd669a13 [PATCH] Insert GART region into resource map
Patch inserts the GART region into the iomem resource map. The GART will then
be visible within /proc/iomem. It will also allow for other users
utilizing the GART to subreserve the region (agp or IOMMU).

Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen 9abd79280b [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Only do MCFG e820 check when type 1 works
Needs earlier patch to split type 1 probing from use.

This patch should fix the x86 macs where type 1 PCI config space access
doesn't work, but MCFG does. They also don't have a usable e820 table
so the e820 sanity check failed.

Instead assume now that if type 1 doesn't work then MCFG must work
and don't do the e820 check.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen 5e544d618f [PATCH] i386/x86-64: PCI: split probing and initialization of type 1 config space access
First probe if type1/2 accesses work, but then only initialize them at the end.

This is useful for a later patch that needs this information inbetween.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen a15da49deb [PATCH] Fix idle notifiers
Previously exit_idle would be called more often than enter_idle

Now instead of using complicated tests just keep track of it
using the per CPU variable as a flip flop.  I moved the idle state into the
PDA to make the access more efficient.

Original bug report and an initial patch from Stephane Eranian,
but redone by AK.

Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman 1c9c0a6ca3 [PATCH] Remove experimental mark of kexec
kexec has been marked experimental for a year now and all
of the serious problems have been worked through.  So it
is time (if not past time) to remove the experimental mark.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen b38337a624 [PATCH] Mark per cpu data initialization __initdata again
Before 2.6.16 this was changed to work around code that accessed
CPUs not in the possible map. But that code should be all fixed now,
so mark it __initdata again.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen 26c13f2b5b [PATCH] Check return values of __copy_to_user in uname emulation
Quietens some new warnings
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:40 +02:00
Andi Kleen 95912008ba [PATCH] Add __must_check to copy_*_user
Following i386.

And also fix the two occurrences that caused warnings in arch/x86_64/*

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Andi Kleen 3022d734a5 [PATCH] Fix zeroing on exception in copy_*_user
- Don't zero for __copy_from_user_inatomic following i386.
This will prevent spurious zeros for parallel file system writers when
one does a exception
- The string instruction version didn't zero the output on
exception. Oops.

Also I cleaned up the code a bit while I was at it and added a minor
optimization to the string instruction path.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
adurbin@google.com 54dbc0c9eb [PATCH] insert IOAPIC(s) and Local APIC into resource map
This patch places the IOAPIC(s) and the Local APIC specified by ACPI
tables into the resource map. The APICs will then be visible within
/proc/iomem

Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Andi Kleen 7b0bda74f7 [PATCH] Fix a PDA warning uncovered by the new type checking
Fix
linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c: In function __switch_to:
linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c:626: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Andi Kleen 96e540492a [PATCH] Fix a irqcount comment in entry.S
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 4f7fd4d7a7 [PATCH] Add the -fstack-protector option to the CFLAGS
Add a feature check that checks that the gcc compiler has stack-protector
support and has the bugfix for PR28281 to make this work in kernel mode.
The easiest solution I could find was to have a shell script in scripts/
to do the detection; if needed we can make this fancier in the future
without making the makefile too complex.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 0a42540580 [PATCH] Add the canary field to the PDA area and the task struct
This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA.
Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context
switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven b62a5c740d [PATCH] Add the Kconfig option for the stackprotector feature
This patch adds the config options for -fstack-protector.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen e8c7391de4 [PATCH] Don't use kernel_text_address in oops context
Because it can take spinlocks.

Suggested by Mathieu Desnoyers

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Magnus Damm 4bfaaef01a [PATCH] Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64)
kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V4, x86_64)

This patch upgrades the x86_64-specific kexec code to avoid overwriting the
current pgd. Overwriting the current pgd is bad when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is used
to start a secondary kernel that dumps the memory of the previous kernel.

The code introduces a new set of page tables. These tables are used to provide
an executable identity mapping without overwriting the current pgd.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Keith Owens f574164491 [PATCH] Remove most of the special cases for the debug IST stack
Remove most of the special cases for the debug IST stack.  This is a
follow on clean up patch, it requires the bug fix patch that adds
orig_ist.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen 53ee11ae0d [PATCH] Optimize PDA accesses slightly
Based on a idea by Jeremy Fitzhardinge:

Replace the volatiles and memory clobbers in the PDA access with
telling gcc about access to a proxy PDA structure that doesn't
actually exist. But the dummy accesses give a defined ordering for
read/write accesses.

Also add some memory barriers to the early GS initialization to
make sure no PDA access is moved before it.

Advantage is some .text savings (probably most from better
code for accessing "current"):

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4845647 1223688  615864 6685199  66020f vmlinux
4837780 1223688  615864 6677332  65e354 vmlinux-pda

1.2% smaller code

Cc:  Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Ian Campbell f2a9e1dec2 [PATCH] Put .note.* sections into a PT_NOTE segment
This patch updates x86_64 linker script to pack any .note.* sections
into a PT_NOTE segment in the output file.

To do this, we tell ld that we need a PT_NOTE segment.  This requires
us to start explicitly mapping sections to segments, so we also need
to explicitly create PT_LOAD segments for text and data, and map the
sections to them appropriately.  Fortunately, each section will
default to its previous section's segment, so it doesn't take many
changes to vmlinux.lds.S.

The corresponding change is already made for i386 in -mm and I'd like
this patch to join it. The section to segment mappings do change as do
the segment flags so some time in -mm would be good for that reason as
well, just in case.

In particular .data and .bss move from the text segment to the data
segment and .data.cacheline_aligned .data.read_mostly are put in the
data segment instead of a separate one.

I think that it would be possible to exactly match the existing section
to segment mapping and flags but it would be a more intrusive change and
I'm not sure there is a reason for the existing layout other than it is
what you get by default if you don't explicitly specify something else.
If there is a reason for the existing layout then I will of course make
the more intrusive change. If there is no reason we could probably drop
the executable or writable flags from some segments but I don't know how
much attention is paid to them anyway so it might not be worth the
effort.

The vsyscall related sections need to go in a different segment to the
normal data segment and so I invented a "user" segment to contain them.
I believe this should appear to be another data segment as far as the
kernel is concerned so the flags are setup accordingly.

The notes will be used in the Xen paravirt_ops backend to provide
additional information to the domain builder. I am in the process of
converting the xen-unstable kernels and tools over to this scheme at the
moment to support this in the future.

It has been suggested to me that the notes segment should have flags 0
(i.e. not readable) since it is only used by the loader and is not used
at runtime. For now I went with a readable segment since that is what
the i386 patch uses.

AK: dropped NOTES addition right now because the needed infrastructure
for that is not merged yet

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman 26374c7b7d [PATCH] Reload CS when startup_64 is used.
In long mode the %cs is largely a relic.  However there are a few cases
like iret where it matters that we have a valid value.  Without this
patch it is possible to enter the kernel in startup_64 without setting
%cs to a valid value.  With this patch we don't care what %cs value
we enter the kernel with, so long as the cs shadow register indicates
it is a privileged code segment.

Thanks to Magnus Damm for finding this problem and posting the
first workable patch.  I have moved the jump to set %cs down a
few instructions so we don't need to take an extra jump.  Which
keeps the code simpler.

Signed-of-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
Andi Kleen 8380aabb99 [PATCH] Remove non e820 fallbacks in high level code
Drop support for non e820 BIOS calls to get the memory map.

The boot assembler code still has some support, but not the C code now.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso b3698c03eb [PATCH] Fix boot code head.S warning
When compiling a 64-bit kernel on an Ubuntu 6.06 32bit system (whose GCC is also
a cross-compiler for x86_64) I've seen that head.o is compiled as a 64-bit file
(while it should not) and ld complaining about this during linking:
[AK: it happens on all systems with new binutils]

ld: warning: i386:x86-64 architecture of input file
`arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.o' is incompatible with i386 output

I've verified that removing -m64 from compilation flags to turn
"-m64 -traditional -m32" into "-traditional -m32" fixes the issue.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen 7a0a2dff1c [PATCH] Add a missing check for irq flags tracing in NMI
NMIs are not supposed to track the irq flags, but TRACE_IRQS_IRETQ
did it anyways. Add a check.

Cc: mingo@elte.hu

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00
Andi Kleen aecc63615e [PATCH] Fix coding style and output of the mptable parser
Give the printks a consistent prefix.
Add some missing white space.

Cc: len.brown@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:37 +02:00